The Lives of Lucian Freud by Feaver, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half-title Page Dedication Page Also by William Feaver Title Page Contents Author’s Note Prologue: ‘Always wanted never to have anything known about me’ PART I BERLIN, LONDON AND DEVON 1922–39

PART II THE PHONEY WAR AND THE REAL WAR 1939–45

5 ‘A private language’ 6 ‘Born naughty’ 7 ‘I used to always put secrets in. I still do’ 8 ‘Slightly notorious’ 9 ‘Slight Dreigroschenoper’ 10 ‘A question of focus’ 11 ‘Living in a dump and going out to somewhere palatial’

PART III FRANCE, GREECE, FIRST MARRIAGE 1945–9

12 ‘French malevolence’ 13 ‘The world of Ovid’ 14 ‘Free spirits like me’ 15 ‘Me with horns’ 16 ‘Fed sweets by nuns on the coach to Galway’

PART IV FIRST RECOGNITION 1949–58

17 ‘My large room in Paddington!’ 18 ‘My night’s entertainment’ 19 ‘Being able to see under the carpet’ 20 ‘True to me’ 21 ‘Lady Dashwood, sorry to have kicked you’ 22 ‘A marvellous chase feeling’ 23 ‘My ardour in the long pursuit’ 24 ‘Idyllic, in a slightly maddening way’ 25 ‘Mad on heat and running round, pissing all the time’

PART V AT THE MARLBOROUGH 1958–68

26 ‘Do you think I’m made of wood?’ 27 ‘Brilliant ones fizzled’ 28 ‘Actually it’s all I can do’ 29 ‘People being monogamous seems to me an extraordinary and imaginative situation’ 30 ‘He was rather nice and repulsive’ 31 ‘Awfully uneasy’ 32 ‘The absolute cheek of making art’ 33 ‘I can’t be pressed really’ 34 ‘If work permits’

Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Picture credits Index A Note on the Author Plates Section Copyright Page